ACF peace initiative and matters arising
In response to the crises that engulf some parts of northern Nigeria in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 Presidential elections, the Arewa Consultative Forum felt the need to bring all people from various communities that made up the region, to sit down and table their grievances with a view to curtail recurrence of such an ugly incidence. However, the way we see it, the approach of the northern elders is rather doomed for failure from its inception. From the theme of the conference of “giving minorities the opportunity to put their social and political grievances”, the conference has from inception taken the usual cover-ups, characteristic of such conferences that were initiated by other groups in the past, which did not yield any tangible or positive result. Apart from that, from what the media reported, the conference is trying to portray a picture of a minority groups being oppressed by a majority ethnic group, which makes it look like what some public analyst see as the mi...